My wife and I are interested in spending 3 months in Italy starting this January to study the language and explore places to settle for longer term later in the year. We are Italian/Americans and our son lives in Europe so we would like to be closer and love Italy. Our criteria is a walker/biker friendly city, affordable housing, reasonably close [1-hour +/-] to the airport, not overrun with tourist. Since our son and his wife live in Denmark we are considering north of Rome. Plus we have explored a lot of southern Italy, where my family is from. All suggestions welcome.